Farley v. Sixteen Bottles of Champagne & Divers Other Liquors
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William W. Farley, as State Commissioner of Excise, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Delaware on the 26th day of March, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of March, 1912, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The respondent was a licensed hotelkeeper and the town in which his hotel was located voted no license. A year after it became impossible for him to obtain a certificate entitling him to sell liquors complaint was made and his hotel was searched and a quantity of liquors of various kinds was found. He interposed an answer to the seizure proceedings and a trial before a jury was had, terminating in a verdict in his favor. The defense to the proceeding was that the liquors were those left on hand at the termination of his license and that they .were not being kept for sale.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- Clement v. Two Barrels of WhiskeyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- Merkley v. ClineAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
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